Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Configuring Host Properties
- About the NetBackup Host Properties
- Access Control properties
- Bandwidth properties
- Busy File Settings properties
- Client Attributes properties
- Client Settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client Settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default Job Priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude Lists properties
- Fibre Transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General Server properties
- Global Attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Login Banner Configuration properties
- Media properties
- Network Settings properties
- Port Ranges properties
- Preferred Network properties
- Resilient Network properties
- Restore Failover properties
- Retention Periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP Parameters properties
- Throttle Bandwidth properties
- Universal Settings properties
- User Account Settings properties
- Configuration options for NetBackup servers
- THROTTLE_BANDWIDTH option for NetBackup servers
- Configuration options for NetBackup clients
- IGNORE_XATTR option for NetBackup clients
- VXSS_NETWORK option for NetBackup clients
- Configuring server groups
- Configuring host credentials
- Managing media servers
- Configuring Host Properties
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Configuring disk storage
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup
- Adding a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually
- Adding a tape drive path
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Performing device diagnostics
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About WORM media
- About adding volumes
- Configuring media settings
- Media settings options
- Media type (new media setting)
- Media settings options
- About barcodes
- Configuring barcode rules
- Configuring media ID generation rules
- Adding volumes by using the Actions menu
- Configuring media type mappings
- Managing volumes
- About exchanging a volume
- About frozen media
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- About rescanning and updating barcodes
- About labeling NetBackup volumes
- About moving volumes
- About recycling a volume
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About showing a robot's contents
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
- Configuring storage units
- About the Storage utility
- Creating a storage unit
- About storage unit settings
- Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
- Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting
- Staging backups
- Creating a basic disk staging storage unit
- Configuring storage unit groups
- Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
- Configuring storage lifecycle policies
- Storage operations
- Index From Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Snapshot operation in an SLP
- Retention types for SLP operations
- Capacity managed retention type for SLP operations
- Storage lifecycle policy options
- Using a storage lifecycle policy to create multiple copies
- Storage lifecycle policy versions
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Creating backup policies
- Planning for policies
- Policy Attributes tab
- Policy storage (policy attribute)
- Policy volume pool (policy attribute)
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes (policy attribute)
- Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
- Cross mount points (policy attribute)
- Encryption (policy attribute)
- Collect true image restore information (policy attribute) with and without move detection
- Use Accelerator (policy attribute)
- Enable optimized backup of Windows deduplicated volumes
- Use Replication Director (policy attributes)
- Schedule Attributes tab
- Type of backup (schedule attribute)
- Frequency (schedule attribute)
- Multiple copies (schedule attribute)
- Retention (schedule attribute)
- Media multiplexing (schedule attribute)
- Start Window tab
- Include Dates tab
- How open schedules affect calendar-based and frequency-based schedules
- About the Clients tab
- Backup Selections tab
- Adding backup selections to a policy
- Verifying the Backup Selections list
- Pathname rules for UNIX client backups
- About the directives on the Backup Selections list
- ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
- Files that are excluded from backups by default
- Disaster Recovery tab
- Active Directory granular backups and recovery
- Synthetic backups
- Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the NetBackup relational database
- About the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) installation
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Post-installation tasks
- About backup and recovery procedures
- Managing backup images
- Creating backup policies
- Section VI. Configuring replication
- About NetBackup replication
- About NetBackup Auto Image Replication
- Viewing the replication topology for Auto Image Replication
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Removing or replacing replication relationships in an Auto Image Replication configuration
- About NetBackup replication
- Section VII. Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- About the Jobs tab
- About the Daemons tab
- About the Processes tab
- About the Drives tab
- About the jobs database
- About pending requests and actions
- Reporting in NetBackup
- Using the Logging Assistant
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section VIII. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Accessing a remote server
- Using the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Run-time configuration options for the NetBackup Administration Console
- About improving NetBackup performance
- About adjusting time zones in the NetBackup Administration console
- Alternate server restores
- About performing alternate server restores
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Powering down and rebooting NetBackup servers
- About Granular Recovery Technology
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
Using the NetBackup Administration Console
The NetBackup Administration Console provides a graphical user interface through which the administrator can manage NetBackup. It runs on both the Windows and the UNIX platforms.
The name of the currently selected master server.
The information in the NetBackup Administration Console applies to this server only.
By default, the console displays a toolbar that contains the following options that provide shortcuts for menu commands:
Launch a new instance of the NetBackup Console
Navigational options: Back, Forward, Up one level
Hide or show the tree in the left pane
Export text in the selected table
Preview Printing and Print
Troubleshoot (launches the Troubleshooter)
Copy to Clipboard
Lock the console
Unlock users
To display or hide the standard NetBackup toolbar, click
.Click to display the information about the current user's successful and unsuccessful login attempts, and the password expiration date.
Administrators can use the Backup, Archive, and Restore utility to back up, archive, and restore files, directories, and the formatted raw partitions that reside on the computer that is currently selected. Files can be restored at any time. However, files can be backed up or archived only during the time periods that the administrator defines within a schedule for user backups. Users can view the progress and final status of the operations performed.
Note:
An archive is a special type of backup. During an archive, NetBackup first backs up the selected files, then deletes the files from the local disk if the backup is successful. In this manual, references to backups also apply to the backup portion of archive operations (except where otherwise noted).
Documentation for the NetBackup client is available as online Help from the
interface.Use the Activity Monitor to display NetBackup job information. The Activity Monitor provides the control over the jobs, services, processes, and drives.
See About the Activity Monitor.
NetBackup Management contains many of the utilities to manage NetBackup:
Reports
Use to compile information to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations.
Policies
Use to create and specify the backup policies that define the rules for backing up a group of clients.
For example, the backup policy specifies when automatic backups occur for the clients that are specified in the policy. The backup policy also specifies whether users can perform their own backups and when. The administrator can define any number of backup policies, each of which can apply to one or more clients. A NetBackup client must belong to at least one backup policy to be backed up.
Storage
Use to configure storage units, storage unit groups, storage lifecycle policies (SLPs), and windows for secondary operations in SLPs.
Catalog
Use to create and configure a catalog backup, which is a special type of backup that NetBackup requires for its own internal databases.
These databases, called the NetBackup catalog, are located on the NetBackup master and media server. The catalog contains information on every client backup. Catalog backups are tracked separately from other backups to ensure recovery in case of a server crash.
The Catalog utility is also used for the following actions:
To duplicate a backup image
To promote a backup image from a copy to the primary backup copy
To manually expire backup images
To import expired backup images or images from another NetBackup server
To search for a backup image to verify the contents of the media with what is recorded in the NetBackup catalog
Host Properties
Use to customize NetBackup configuration options. In most instances, no changes are necessary. However, Host Properties lets the administrator customize NetBackup to meet specific site preferences and requirements for master servers, media servers, and clients.
Applications
Applications contains all discovered instances on SQL and Oracle clients and any manually added instances. These instances are used to build an Oracle or a SQL Intelligent Policy.
For more information, see the NetBackup for Oracle Administrator's Guide and the NetBackup for SQL Server Administrator's Guide.
Media and Device Management contains the utilities for managing the media and devices that NetBackup uses to store backups:
Device Monitor
Manages the drives, device paths, and service requests for operators.
Media
Adds and manages removable media.
Devices
Adds, configures, and manages storage devices.
Credentials
Adds, removes, and manages logon credentials for the following:
appears only if one of these licenses is installed.
Security Management contains utilities to view login activity, to manage host ID-based certificates, and to manage NetBackup Access Control.
Security Events
Use to view the login details about the current administrator and the user-initiated changes that are made to certificates, tokens, hosts, security configurations, and connections.
The Security Events utility consists of two tabs:
Note:
NetBackup requires the bprd service to be running to display the audit details on the tab for the users who are logged in using the .
For more information about
, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.Use to carry out NetBackup host operations, such as adding or removing host ID to host name mappings, reset host, or add comment for a host.
The Host Management node consists of two tabs:
Certificate Management
Use to set the security level for certificate deployment, to view and manage all certificates in the system.
Use to configure security settings like enable insecure communication, disaster recovery package passphrase, certificate deployment level and so on.
The Global Security Settings node consists of two tabs:
Access Management
NetBackup administrators can protect a NetBackup configuration by defining who may access NetBackup and what functions a user group can perform.
is enabled when NetBackup Product Authentication and Authorization and NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is configured.For more information about NetBackup Access Control, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
Additional licensed utilities appear under the main NetBackup nodes.
The Logging Assistant is a tool that helps administrators configure, gather, and upload debug logs.
See About the Logging Assistant.
The Details pane contains the configuration wizards and details specific to the utility that is selected.
Note:
When any table is displayed in an active console window, users can enter the search text directly on the keyboard. The text is searched within the first column of the table and the content is highlighted.
The NetBackup Administration Console menus are described in the online Help.